Re: Latest dist-upgrade didn't behave as expected
Sven Luther <luther@dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr> writes:
>> weel, I least, I can say what append for me :
>>
>> debian:/# apt-get dist-upgrade
>
> Jerome, did you do a dist-upgrade also ?
Yes.
> You are all supposed to do upgrades only, dist-upgrade is for when you
> upgrade from say woody to sarge.
Really ? :-) Am I too gready?
>> Reading Package Lists... Done
>> Building Dependency Tree... Done
>> Calculating Upgrade... Done
>> The following packages will be REMOVED:
>> liblablgl-ocaml-dev liblablgtk-ocaml-dev ocaml
>> ocaml-native-compilers
>>
>> [some package have been striped from this list]
>> The following packages will be upgraded
>> ledit liblablgl-ocaml liblablgtk-ocaml libzip-ocaml ocaml-base
>> 5 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 51 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
>> Need to get 356kB of archives. After unpacking 113MB will be freed.
>>
>> so it remove ocaml but don't upgrade it.
>>
>> I've to make an apt-get install ocaml to upgrade everything.
>
> The idea was that (for the normal user at least) the ocaml packages and
> the new libs would have been put on hold until we rebuild all libraries.
>
> I also have no idea why ocaml was removed, but i guess it is because
> apt-get can't handle as complex a web of virtual dependencies as we are
> using.
Maybe the pb comes from the dist-upgrade.
Cheers,
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Jérôme Marant
http://marant.org
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